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<\/p>\nSomewhat under the radar, internationally acclaimed brujo-poeta, theorist, and performance artist Guillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a returns to New York for two evenings.<\/p>\n
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The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and el Museo del Barrio present two evenings featuring Guillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a. After more than four years away from New York, G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a brings back his unique style of performance-activism and “theatricalizations of postcolonial theory.” In his books, as in his solo shows, he pushes the boundaries still further, exploring what’s left for artists to do in a post-9\/11 “repressive culture of censorship, paranoid nationalism” and what he terms “the mainstream bizarre.” These programs are presented in connection with El Museo’s current exhibition, Arte. Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000 and the Hemispheric Institute’s EMERGENYC program.<\/p>\n
AN EVENING OF SPOKEN WORD ROULETTE AND CRITICAL THEORY WITH GUILLERMO G\u00d3MEZ-PE\u00d1A
\nTuesday, April 22, 2008, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
\nNew York University
\nJurow Hall, Silver Center,
\n100 Washington Square East
\nAdmission: Free<\/p>\n
Guillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a will present a lecture at New York university in which he will examine the role of artists working against the backdrop of war, censorship, cultural paranoia and spiritual despair. In his lecture, G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a will ask: What are the new roles that artists must undertake? Where are the new borders between the accepted and the forbidden? Is art still a pertinent form of inquiry and contestation? This lecture will be the inaugural public event of the institute’s EMERGENYC and Hemispheric New York programs.<\/p>\n
EL MEXORCIST 3: AMERICA’S MOST WANTED INNER DEMON
\nWednesday, April 23, 2008, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
\nEl Museo del Barrio
\nTeatro Heckscher, 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
\nAdmission: Free<\/p>\n
In this performance, G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a assaults the demonized construction of the US\/Mexican border-a literal and symbolic zone lined with Minutemen, rising nativism, three-ply fences, globalization, and transnational identities. To this effect, the “border artist extraordinaire” uses acid Chicano humor, hybrid literary genres, multilingualism, and activist theory as subversive strategies. In this journey to the geographical and psychological outposts of Chicanismo, G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a also reflects on identity, race, sexuality, pop culture, politics and the impact of new technologies in the post-9\/11 era.<\/p>\n